On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 08:33 -0500, Andy Walls wrote: > On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 12:17 +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote: > > On Monday, February 28, 2011 12:07:33 Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > > > > So, do I understand it right, that currently there are drivers, that > > > > overwrite the last buffers while waiting for a new one, and ones, that > > > > stop capture for that time. > > > > Does anyone know which drivers stop capture if there are no buffers available? > > I'm not aware of any. > > Not that it is a camera driver, but... > > cx18 will stall the stream, due to the CX23418 engine being starved of > buffers for that stream, if the application doesn't read the buffers. > The reasoning for this behavior is that one large gap is better than a > series of small gaps, if the application has fallen behind. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Gah. That didn't make sense. I need more coffee before sending email. -Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
